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the Epistle side, and passing down the south aisle returns through the nave." It adds :

" The Old English use was to employ the inverse order in penitential processions, passing down the north aisle and returning by the nave. In cathe- drals and larger churches, the procession on feast days and other solemn occasions quitted the choir by the north door of the presbytery and passed behind the high altar, so reaching the south aisle and returning by the nave." P. 103.

In 'The Buddhist Praying Wheel' Mr. Simpson has much to say of " withershins " or " widdershins," and the contrary mode of revolution. He gives a note (p. 282) which should interest DR. SMYTHE PALMER :

" Wishing to know in what direction the circuni- ambulations were made in consecrating a Roman Catholic church, I made inquiries, and was favoured with very full details, which I owe to the Rev. Richard Conway, of Parson's Green. In going round the outside of the church, the first and second cir- cumambulation are made with the left hand to the centre ; and the last turn is made with the right hand to the centre. It is the same with the circuits inside. At the first two the Bishop begins at the Gospel or north side and returns to the Epistle or south side ; the third time he begins at the Epistle

and ends at the Gospel In the extra-Liturgical

function, the Way of the Cross, there is circumam- bulation, as the priest begins at the altar generally, goes to the Gospel side for the first station, and ends on the Epistle side at the fourteenth station."

From what Mr. Conway tells Mr. Simpson of the use of the Roman Catholic Churcn at consecrations, the latter draws the curious inference that " the Church attached no importance to the particular direction of the circuits " ! ST. SWITHIN.

NOVEL BY JEAN INGELOW (8 th S. xii. 429, 454 ; 9 th S. i. 14).' Fated to be Free,' after run- ning through Good Words in 1875, was im- mediately republished in the regulation three- volume form by Messrs. Tinsley Brothers. A second edition, in the same form, was pub- lished by them before the close of the year. The following year they published a new illustrated edition, in one volume, at 7s. Qd. In 1878 Messrs. Chatto & Windus published an edition at 6s., and in 1879 a still cheaper one at 2s. Of American editions, the first authorized one was published in Boston by Messrs. Roberts Brothers contemporaneously with the first English edition. It contains an interesting preface by the author, giving an account of the book. This is not in the English edition. A second authorized editioi was published by the same firm in 1882. A cheaper edition, presumably unauthorized was published in 1880 by Messrs. Munro in their " Seaside Library." With this multipli city of editions, and perhaps others that hav< escaped my notice, your correspondent at th<

econd reference has been peculiarly unfor- unate in his researches never to have met vith a copy of the work in book form.

GASTON DE BERNEVAL. Philadelphia.

SIR WILLIAM BEAUMARIS RUSH (9 th S. i. 448). Page's 'Supplement to the Suffolk Tra- veller ' says that Sir W. B. Rush owned the Manor of Raydoii (not Roydon) in Suffolk, ind that his daughter married Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke, the celebrated traveller. Be- ides this, he inherited from his uncle Samuel ilush the estate of Benhall, which was sold )y the Duke family to John, Samuel's brother. Sir W. B. Rush sold it in 1790 to his cousin

eprgej Rush. In Davy's ' Pedigrees,' in the Sritish Museum, Add. MS. 19,147, there is a pedigree of Rush of Benhall.

W. E. LAYTON, F.S.A.

Cuddington Vicarage, Surrey.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

'if/Hah Dialect Dictionary. Edited by Joseph Wright, M.A., Ph.D., D.C.L. Part V. (Frowde.) THE fifth part of Dr. Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary' completes the first volume. It is thicker than any previous part, and, besides comprising the portion of the alphabet between chuck and cyut, gives the list of subscribers to the work and the whole of the prefatory matter. From it we are enabled to supply information that cannot be otherwise than interesting to our readers. Twenty -three years have been devoted by hundreds of workers to the task of compiling the materials, competent people having been secured in every county. In addition to the labours of these, upwards of three thou- sand dialect glossaries and kindred works have been laid under contribution. Special service has been rendered by the collections and library of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, which for over two years were at the disposal of Dr. Wright. These comprised hundreds of small local works not to be found in any of our public libraries. To a great extent the present dictionary is founded upon the publications of the English Dialect Society, now, its work having been accomplished, extinct. Of this society Dr. Wright was secretary during the years 1893-6, in which the headquarters were in Oxford, the Rev. A. L. Mayhew being treasurer. The whole of the eighty publications for which it is responsible are, or will be, incorporated in this work. One special and indeed unique advantage, to which, in the preface, attention is called, con- sists in the fact that besides being, when complete, the largest and most comprehensive dialect dic- tionary ever published in any country, it can never become antiquated. Not too soon has the effort been made. Pure dialect speech is rapidly dis- appearing in our midst, and will before very long have all but entirely disappeared. Proofs of this are abundant. Words with which we were our- selves familiar in youth are now unknown in dis- tricts in which they were once in constant use. Well